June 20, 2013 - As the Garden Enters the Summer Season (part 2)

A double row of bush beans. I think these are Contender. Or maybe Provider. I always get those mixed up! OK, I looked it up and these are the earlier planted ones, which were Provider.

This is the carrot patch that germinated then disappeared, probably eaten by pill bugs. Some of the seedlings survived, and where it looks bare there are actually new seedlings emerging from reseeding the bed. Annie got into the garden last week, and walked right through this bed. Carrots may not grow where doggy footprints go.

These are the Contender bush beans. They were planted a bit later, and came under leaf miner attack. It looks like only the early leaves were damaged, the new leaves look fine. I think the miners moved over to the beet greens along the fence.

A later planted bed of carrots has almost caught up with the early ones.

The corn is growing well, despite the cool weather.

The sweet pepper plants are not growing very well, but they are loaded with blossoms and many have good sized peppers on them. That's a pot of dill in the front.

Lots of blossoms on the peppers.

Quite a few peppers, too.

Nearly as large as my hand!

Aren't they purty?

Don't ask me why I planted a row of veggies along this fence line. I thought maybe my neighbor would keep her weeds pulled after she spent so much time removing them this spring. As you can see, it didn't happen. If I hadn't planted here, I could at least go along the fence with the hoe. As it is, I have to hand weed this area almost daily. It didn't get done today :-( Anyway, if they can compete with the weeds, I have a few beets, parsnips and bush beans planted here.

I stuck some leftover cabbage plants here, along with marigolds, nasturtiums, potatoes in the black thing, and a Black Cherry tomato at the corner of the kennel. It was supposed to be a Una Hartsock tomato, but I got the seeds mixed up.

I pulled the pea vines off of the kennel this morning. Youngest (4-year old) granddaughter is coming over Saturday, so I'll put her to work helping me plant pole beans in their place. The kennel holds some broccoli, cabbages, lettuce, carrots and beets. There are a few pole beans growing up the back of the kennel, but they pretty much got chewed to death by earwigs.

Bush cucumber climbing up bamboo poles.

Baby cucumbers and blossoms abound.

The pot garden, with its pots of tomatoes, basil, rosemary, strawberries and lettuce seedlings. Hot peppers grow in pots on the patio.

These are from a packet of Happy Yummy (hot) peppers. Last year they turned out to be long, orange and very sweet (my favorites).

These are from the same packet of Happy Yummy (hot). I don't know what I'll end up with, the peppers on the two plants look quite different, but I'm sure they'll be good anyway!

These are Jalapeno, also growing in pots on the patio.

Sungold tomatoes are on each side of the patio entrance. I picked my first tomatoes from them yesterday! There were only three ripe ones, so Mr. Granny and I will have to share them tonight.

Patio tomatoes in the pots, Fortex pole beans climbing up the bamboo poles and almost ready to grab on to the lattice.

Celebrity tomatoes and rhubarb grow along the west fence.

Celebrity tomatoes.

Here is the main garden in total (in the dark, dreary, rainy weather). Look who is standing behind the white garden bench, waiting for me to bring him his daily cookie treat ;-) For those new to my blog, that's the neighbor's dog. I spoil him rotten.

24 comments:

Most everything in your garden looks beautiful! You are so far ahead of me and plant so much more! I love the fact that Annie gives you a little trouble just like Coco. Misery loves company you know! I have to agree the green peppers are beautiful and so is the bush cucumber growing up the bamboo poles! You keep everything so neat and orderly and it all looks so pretty! Nancy

Thank you, Nancy. Yes, Annie and Otto can try my patience at times. Like right now, when I want to be on the computer, and they are both poking me in the leg with their noses....they want a bedtime treat! So impatient!

Thanks, Ray. It tastes pretty good, too! Last night we ate peas, potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, lettuce, radishes and raspberries, all fresh from the garden. The only thing I didn't grow were the pork roast and the salad dressing. I love dinners like that!

Whew, I'm tired after the long tour, but that was very satisfying. I love how clean and organized your garden is, someday mine will look like that, too. Haha, I'm joking, of course, but I can dream, right? Tomatoes look lush and healthy, and that 3 headed cabbage is awesome, but I love the peppers the most; they're all so purty. No, I take that back, I love your friend visitor the most. What a sweet dog, keeping you company while you garden.

That "sweet dog" only loves me for my cookies, LOL! By the time I'd finished taking photos and had gone back in the house for his treat, he gave up and went back home. He's stone deaf, so I couldn't even call him back.

I can't believe you have such huge peppers already. Your weather always seems about 10F hotter than here. Maybe not the last week though. We also had a rainy cool week, but at least we will get some heat this weekend. Back into the 80s for a short time.

Daphne, we're supposed to get two days back up into the 80s this weekend, then back down to the 70s, with clouds and possible showers. We usually have to give in and run the AC by mid June, but we came really close to turning on the heat yesterday.

Thanks, Jennifer. It seems like my garden is slow, but I think most everyone's is suffering from odd weather this year. I'm thankful I'm getting at least a small harvest, but I want ripe tomatoes!! We shared our first 3 ripe cherry tomatoes last night. They weren't sweet like a Sungold should be, but at least they tasted like tomatoes, not cardboard!

I have weedy neighbors too, I just can't keep up with all the weeds. I just try not too worry. I actually sent my dh over to the neighbors side to weed eat one day! ;) They don't have one so he asked if it was ok. I just couldn't handle them coming through the fence into my garden.Your garden is looking great. Did you take down several raised beds?

Shawn Ann, I'm so tempted to reach over the fence with the weed eater! I told the guy about the 5' tall walnut tree growing in his hedge, and that he might want to get it out of there before it took out the fence, but he never got up enough energy to do it. I finally got out my biggest loppers and reached over the fence to cut out as much as I could. I sure miss my dear old neighbor Pat!

You have your first tomatoes already, amazing! And your peppers are getting huge! I've been giving my biggest tomatoes a light squeeze now and then to see how close they are, since I tend to let the first of the non-red varieties get overripe.